I'm an ESL Admin and this weekend we have/had the ESL Preparatory Cup, containing this map pack. I've spoken to Breton, the creator of this track, before the cup about the cuts.

He said that the first cut, was not meant to be like that, you just have to jump right instead of going straight and get directly in the checkpoint. The 2nd "jump" cut, wasn't really a cut, but made that way. It was intended to make the jump towards the check instead of going straight. Near end there is a platform, and the early jump of there was allowed to.

Ofcourse that doesn't say these rules MUST be applied, because to be honest I find this map pack quite, horrible? How can such tracks being used for a major competition, if not the largest competition, like ESWC. Cuts being found time after time, and some tracks are just pretty bad.

Least thing to do is contact all the authors of the "cuttable" tracks to fix it. Because compared to previous map pack I find this one almost a joke.

Personaly, I like the new pack... don't know what should be wrong with it

To 02:
You need much more luck to get the 2nd cut perfectly than the 1st one. So with forbidding the 1st cut it gets even more lucky to finish the track with a good time. And anyone trained WITH the cuts anyway, so it doesn't make sense to forbid them now, one week before the GER National Final.
But it would be great to hear an official decision, because I don't want to be disqualified at the National Final only because I took the best way

We received a lot of good feedback for this official pack, much more than february/march pack. It is your opinion to think it is "horrible", but I don't think this is the thought of the majority at all. For your ESL tournament if you're not happy with ESWC tracks nobody forced you to use, you can pick other tracks.

This pack is maybe better than the previous one (or not), but it is still poor. Compared to other competitions with their own maps (NC/STC, TNA, TT), many eswc maps are really bad (imo). For this pack, some much better maps have not been chosen, like Loco's or Guykes'. I hope you still work on a better way to select your maps.

ESWC-Sylvain wrote:We received a lot of good feedback for this official pack, much more than february/march pack. It is your opinion to think it is "horrible", but I don't think this is the thought of the majority at all. For your ESL tournament if you're not happy with ESWC tracks nobody forced you to use, you can pick other tracks.

Ok saying that the pack is horrible was probably too far. But i compared it ( as kirz said ) to the TNA, STC, NC3 and ESL packs. Compared to that, it is really, really bad. Especially considering this is the largest tournament of all!

kirz wrote:This pack is maybe better than the previous one (or not), but it is still poor. Compared to other competitions with their own maps (NC/STC, TNA, TT), many eswc maps are really bad (imo). For this pack, some much better maps have not been chosen, like Loco's or Guykes'. I hope you still work on a better way to select your maps.

Something i completely agree with, as I stated earlier about the mappacks compared to other competition.

The main thing i don't get is, how maps with more votes than others don't get in the pack? But ones with lower votes get. It olmost smells 'fixed'?

Next pack, just PICK the 8 maps with the BEST votes. Why else would you keep a poll?

kirz wrote:This pack is maybe better than the previous one (or not), but it is still poor. Compared to other competitions with their own maps (NC/STC, TNA, TT), many eswc maps are really bad (imo)...

Man, NC/STC, TNA maps are maded for 1week of training and usually they are quite easy ( very often, easy = favourite for players). You cannot compare that to ESWC maps (2months of training), which has to be harder.